Ponovno predvajanje sreda, 30. november 1983

CRIMINAL JUSTICE CHIEF

Date: 01 December 1983

By Edward A. Gargan

Edward Gargan

''Criminal justice is a little bit like arms control,'' said Kenneth Conboy, sitting in his 14th-floor office of Police Headquarters. ''It's an area of enormous complexity. It's an area riven with fears.'' For the 45-year-old Mr. Conboy, who was named the city's new criminal justice coordinator by Mayor Koch yesterday, learning how to wade through those complexities and allay that fear will become a fulltime job Jan. 1. He succeeds John F. Keenan, who resigned in October to take a seat on the Federal Court for the Southern District. When Mr. Conboy is sworn in, he will be the Mayor's eyes and ears on criminal justice matters, his negotiator with district attorneys and the state and a mediator among the competing political forces that swirl around the administration of justice in New York City.

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COMPANY NEWS

Date: 30 November 1983

MCI Seeks Tests Of European Calls WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (AP) - The MCI Communications Corporation today asked for permission to begin tests of overseas, direct-dial phone circuits to Belgium and Greece in what would represent a challenge to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's monopoly over handling calls to and from Europe. The request was contained in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.

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GERMANY'S VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE

Date: 30 November 1983

By John Tagliabue

John Tagliabue

''I am neither dishonest nor stupid enough to jeopardize my personal, political and professional existence by sticking money into my pockets like that.'' With these words Otto Lambsdorff, threatened by charges that he accepted payments for political favors, defended himself last December before a group of Free Democrats from his home constituency of Euskirchen, not far from Bonn. The decision by the Bonn prosecutor to seek to have Mr. Lambsdorff's immunity as a parliamentary deputy lifted so that he can be charged with accepting bribes threatens to silence the West German political leader widely considered to be one of the brightest, wittiest and at times, more abrasive ministers in the Government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The decision also throws into doubt the future course of policies aimed at strengthening the recovery of the West German economy, which has recently begun emerging from a deep recession.

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THE MEDIA WHAT AM

Date: 30 November 1983

By Russell Baker

Russell Baker

I've given up asking, ''Did President Reagan call?'' For a long time, arriving at the office, that was the first thing I said. ''Did President Reagan call?'' ''No, President Reagan didn't call.'' ''Well, did anybody from the White House call?'' ''No, nobody from the White House called.''

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NEWSPAPERS SEE RISE OF 14% IN AD REVENUES

Date: 01 December 1983

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

Newspapers expect advertising revenues to increase more than 14 percent in 1983, which would be the largest annual growth since 1976. Their total ad revenues are projected at more than $20 billion for this year. Higher advertising revenues are also expected in other advertising media - television, radio, magazines and direct mail. The gains are especially welcome to the newspaper industry because the third quarter of last year was one of the worst ever for advertising sales growth.

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South African Trial Delayed

Date: 30 November 1983

Reuters

The trial of a South African journalist accused of violating the country's press laws was postponed today for five months. Allister Sparks, 50 years old, a correspondent for The Washington Post and The Observer of London, faces charges of breaking censorship laws by quoting a ''banned'' person in overseas publications. At the request of his lawyers, the trial was put off until April 25.

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TEST AT ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT: U.S. ROLE, IF ANY, IN SAVING NEWSPAPERS

Date: 01 December 1983

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

NewsAnalysis The planned closing of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is providing a test of what role, if any, the Federal Government should play in saving newspapers, which historically have asserted a constitutional right to be independent of the Government. Three weeks ago The Globe-Democrat announced that it was losing so much money that it would have to close at the end of the year. This set off a hasty search for a buyer who would keep the paper going, a familiar routine in an industry that has seen daily newspapers die in Washington, Philadelphia, Cleveland and a host of smaller cities. The Government is involved in St. Louis because The Globe-Democrat and The Post-Dispatch share printing and sales operations, as well as profits or losses, under a special exemption to Federal antitrust laws, the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970.

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HOPE FOR BRITISH PRESS SETTLEMENT FADES

Date: 01 December 1983

By Barnaby J. Feder

Barnaby Feder

Hopes for any immediate solution to the labor dispute that shut down Britain's national newspapers over the weekend seemed to have disappeared today. Abandoning any talk of negotiations for the moment, Selim Shah, the publisher of six free-circulation newspapers in the Manchester area, today continued this week's press run at his nonunion plant in Warrington behind a wall of police protection as union leaders called for thousands of pickets to block delivery of the papers. On Tuesday night in Warrington, a crowd that the police said reached 4,000 around midnight surrounded the one- story, steel-sided printing plant and engaged in frequent shoving matches with upwards of 1,200 policemen. Some bottles and bricks were thrown.

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BRITISH POLICE AND PICKETS CLASH IN PRINTER DUSPUTE

Date: 30 November 1983

By Barnaby J. Feder

Barnaby Feder

The challenge to Britain's labor laws by the printers union that shut down national newspapers over the weekend gained violent momentum early today as pickets and policemen clashed outside a nonunion printing plant here. The clashes occurred in this industrial town between Manchester and Liverpool, outside the plant in which Selim Shah's Messenger Group of newspapers has been printing six free- circulation weeklies throughout a 26- week dispute with the National Graphical Association, the printers union. As the presses rolled, the crowd swelled with new busloads of workers from as far away as London and Scotland. Many were from other unions and had come to see the dispute as a test of antiunion labor laws enacted by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government after Mr. Selim used these laws to enjoin mass picketing and other forms of protest.

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FRENCH WARY ON CLOSER TIE TO NATO

Date: 01 December 1983

By John Vinocur

John Vinocur

The creation of a French Rapid Action Force for use in Europe has led to discussion of practical steps to reintegrate military activities into NATO planning. It has also led to heightened French sensitivity about the broadened military relationship with the Atlantic alliance. It was disclosed that Gen. Charles de Llamby, commander of the First Army, stationed in eastern France and West Germany, was privately reprimanded for saying he began talks with the allies in mid-November on the logistical support NATO armies would offer the Rapid Action Force if it should be used in Central Europe. General de Llamby said the discussions involved ''the possibilities and procedures for action'' by the unit - likened in conception to the United States' rapid deployment forces - and the possible pre-positioning of weapons and helicopters for it in West Germany.

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